Daily Archives: September 4, 2008

St. Charles named a primary stroke center St. Charles Hospital, a 231-bed facility in Port Jefferson, recently became only the third hospital in Long Island and the 11th in the state to earn the Gold Seal of Approval from the ...

To some Long Islanders, a horse is a pet; to others, a sport; and to many, simply one of the most majestic members of our animal kingdom. To a small population, however, a horse is much more – it’s a ...

The presidential campaign season is in full swing, as are last-minute preparations at Hofstra University for the final debate on Oct. 15. University President Stuart Rabinowitz is overseeing it all, as new cable is run to accommodate John McCain, Barack ...

Last winter, after 32 years delivering fuel oil, Peter Vitale was ready to enter another profession. “I felt like becoming a shrink with everyone complaining,” said Vitale, owner of Old Country Fuel Oil in Huntington, which services about 300 customers. ...

The U.S. unit of Kingsway Financial Services, one of Canada’s largest automobile insurers has leased 50,000 square feet of office space in a Bethpage building owned by Sterling Equities. The 250,000-square-foot, two-building complex at 999 Stewart Ave. was largely vacated ...

A plan to turn 110,000 underwater acres in Peconic and Gardiner bays into thousands of private shellfish farms is facing opposition from some baymen as well as a leading environmental group that is worried the bays might become industrialized. Four ...

In order to succeed and grow in your sales career, you have to get past the mentality of “make more sales,” “hit my quota,” “end of the month,” “end of the quarter” or “make my plan.” It’s not that you ...

If your business is planning to have a holiday party this year, you likely will have good company. According to a survey conducted late last year by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources firm, 70 percent of organizations planned to ...

Long Island’s 2,700 real estate offices are now voter registration stations. Prospective voters can walk into just about any real estate office in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties and fill out voter registration forms. Don’t have a stamp? The Realtors ...